UMN enrollment drops 2.3 percent, more outside Twin Cities
Undergraduate enrollment is down 2.3 percent across the University of Minnesota system this fall as the coronavirus pandemic has hurt families’ finances and made campus life less appealing. Vice...
View ArticleSt. Paul’s Sanneh Foundation offers digital learning site during COVID
As cars lined up outside the Conway Community Center to pick up produce as part of a food drive, workers inside, sporting bright green shirts, unwrapped 70 laptops, preparing the hardware for a group...
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Working from home? These four laptops will up your tech game.
Still working or attending school from home because of COVID-19? There is no better time to up your tech game. Start by replacing your computer, if your current workhorse is getting on in years, to...
View Article73 MN high school athletes test positive for COVID-19 in two weeks of fall...
Voluntary data submitted by 348 member schools to the Minnesota State High School League reported 73 high school athletes tested positive for COVID-19 over a two-week period ending Sept. 4, while 735...
View ArticleSt. Paul City Council debates halting charter school bond requests for six...
For years, charter schools eager for construction financing have turned to the city of St. Paul for conduit revenue bonds — a type of public borrowing that leaves the schools, not the city, on the hook...
View ArticleTeacher departures leave schools scrambling for substitutes
INDIANAPOLIS— With many teachers opting out of returning to the classroom because of the coronavirus, schools around the U.S. are scrambling to find replacements and in some places lowering...
View ArticleAs MN schools reopen, parents urged to keep sick kids home to slow COVID spread
This school year, with the coronavirus pandemic as a constant threat, a case of the sniffles might be reason enough to stay home from school. That’s the message state health officials are sending to...
View ArticleUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison eliminates spring break
By TODD RICHMOND MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Madison decided Monday to eliminate spring break next semester in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The university’s...
View ArticleDistance learning deal with St. Paul teachers calls for ‘regular’— not...
Teachers in St. Paul Public Schools must “connect” with students in real-time each day and make themselves available for office hours once a week, but there is no specific requirement regarding the...
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Ruth (Randall) Benson, first woman to serve as Minnesota’s education...
Ruth (Randall) Benson, a lifelong educator and the first woman to serve as Minnesota’s education commissioner, died after a short hospitalization Thursday. She was 91. Benson dedicated her career to...
View ArticleVirus rates suggest six MN counties should close K-12 schools, weekly health...
Increases in confirmed coronavirus cases have moved one-third of Minnesota counties to a more restrictive recommended mode of instruction for K-12 schools, according to a Department of Health report...
View ArticleIowa teacher on leave for ‘pretend you are a slave’ assignment
IOWA CITY, Iowa — A high school teacher in Iowa has been placed on leave for assigning students to “pretend you are a black slave.” The Iowa City Press-Citizen reported that the assignment for an Iowa...
View ArticleMind the gap? Pandemic has students taking a semester or two off before...
A homeschool PSEO student at Normandale Community College, Ainsley Schwerr was wrapping up both a high school diploma and two-year college degree last spring when the coronavirus pandemic forced her...
View ArticleSt. Thomas convenes group on renamings after learning Bishop Loras owned slave
The University of St. Thomas is studying how to respond to revelations that Bishop Mathias Loras, whose name is on a building on the St. Paul campus, bought an enslaved woman while living in Alabama....
View ArticleSt. Paul district reports enrollment drop as pandemic moves school online
The coronavirus pandemic appears to be accelerating a long-running decline in enrollment for St. Paul Public Schools. A preliminary count of 34,179 students through Tuesday is nearly 1,000 fewer than...
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St. Paul schools superintendent gets high marks, but board wants progress on...
The St. Paul school board gave Superintendent Joe Gothard high marks on his annual performance evaluation in a year that has brought a teacher strike and an ongoing pandemic that claimed the life of a...
View ArticleSome large MN school districts moving toward in-person classes after starting...
Students in several large Minnesota school districts are heading back to class after starting the year learning from home because of the coronavirus pandemic. Nine of the state’s 50 largest districts...
View ArticleAthletes Helping Students event aims to collect school supplies for St. Paul...
The Concordia St. Paul, Macalester and Rip City men’s basketball teams led an effort to collect supplies for St. Paul families in need in June. Upon the conclusion of that successful event, Concordia...
View Article2020 National Blue Ribbon Schools recognizes three in east metro
The U.S. Department of Education announced Thursday that three east metro schools will be recognized as 2020 National Blue Ribbon Schools. In total, eight Minnesota schools will be receiving the honor...
View ArticleSt. Paul district to wait on reopening schools, citing lack of staff
St. Paul Public Schools said Friday it doesn’t have enough staff to begin gradually bringing students back to school. District students have been learning from home since the fall semester began on...
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